Button



M, LIPKIN.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1920.

1,367,555; Patented Feb. 8. 1921.

j Zqavafivrx Wax 11 9015672 UNlTED STATES MAX LIPKIN, OF BOSTON, LIASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

menses.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed July 6, 1920. Serial No. 394,249..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Max LIPKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of lvlassachusetts, have invented new and useful lmprovements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

T his invention relates to buttons for wearing apparel, and particularly to cuff buttons, although the novel features of the invention hereinafter described may be embodied in a button for connecting other parts of wearing apparel than the end portions of cuifs, or in a button-like ornament adapted to be secured to a garment without connecting the parts thereof.

The object of the invention is to provide a button the head of which includes a disk,

which is preferably a coin of any desired denomination, and a holder adapted to securely confine the coin and expose one side thereof, and portions of the opposite side, the construction of the holder being such that the amount of metal required to manufacture the holder is reduced to a minimum, and the quick convenient assemblage of the holder and the disk is permitted.

The invention is embodied in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,"

Figure 1 is a front side View of a button embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear side view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an edge view.

Fig. 41 is an enlarged section on line 45- 1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an inner side view of a different form of button embodying the invention.

Fig. 6 is a section on line 66 of Fig. 5.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

The head of my improved button is composed of a continuous ring 12, a cross-bar 18, fixed at its ends to the inner edge of the ring. extending across the space surrounded by the ring, and a disk 15 seated on the cross-bar, and closely fitting the internal surface of the ring. The disk is preferably a coin, and, as shown by Fig. 1, is a ten dollar gold piece.

Practically the entire outer side of the disk 15 is exposed. as indicated by Fig. 1.

The cross-bar 13 is fixed to the inner edge of the ring, at diametrically opposite points,

so that when the disk is forced into the ring, the cross-bar forms a seat which limits the entrance of the disk into the ring and prevents it from being pushed outward from the rear edge of the ring.

The cross-bar is formed to expose portions of the inner side of the disk, as indicated by Figs. 2, 1-, 5 and 6. The area of the cross-bar is considerably less than that of the space bounded by the ring, so that the amount of metal required in manufacturing the button is reduced to a minimum. The exposure of portions of the inner side of the disk enables the disk to be ejected from the ring by outward pressure exerted on the exposed portions of the disk, so that the disk, when embodied in a coin, may be removed and used in cases of emergency, for its original purpose.

As shown by Fig. 6, the ring may be formed to have only a frictional engagement with the periphery of the disk, and to permit the disk to be removed from the ring, by the application of sufficient force to the inner side of the disk. As shown by Fig. 4, the outer edge of the ring may be turned inwardly, to form a narrow annular flange or lip 18, bearin on the marginal portion of the outer side of the disk, so that the disk is positively confined against sidewise movement in either direction, the crossbar 13 preventing sidewise movement in one direction, and the flange or lip 18 preventing sidewise movement in the opposite direction.

The head constructed as above described, may be provided with any suitable securing means, constituting with the head an operative button. The securing means shown by Figs. 2, 3 and 4 is embodied in an eye 19, fixed to the cross-bar 13. a link 20, engaged at one end with the eye 19, and a bar 21 having an eye 22, engaged with the opposite end of the link 20, a well-known type of outfbutton being thus provided.

As shown by Figs. 5 and 6, a curved bar 23 is fixed at one end to the cross-bar 13, and provided at its outer end with a head 24:, so that another well known type of cuff-button is provided.

It is obvious that the structure shown by Figs. 2, 3 and 1, omitting the link .20 and bar 21, may be used as an ordinary button, the eye 19 being secured, as by stitches, to a garment.

It is also obvious that the above described or any equivalent securing means on the cross-bar 13 may he engaged with a garment Without connecting two parts of the la ten, for example by passing the link 20 through a button hole in the lapel c1 a coat, the 21 bearing on the inner side of the lapel 01 by sewing the eye 19 to the lapel. T he article thus used may constitute an ornament having no mechanical function.

I claim:

An article of the character stated comprising a head composed of a continuous ring, a cross-bar fixed at its ends to the in memes nei" edge of the -ing; and extending across the space hounded by the ring and a disk seated on the crossoci and closely fitting 15 the internal surface of the ring, said crossbar being formed to expose portions of the inner side of the disk, and to minimize the amount of metal required for the head, and head-securing means engaged with. the cross-- bar.

In testimony whereoi l have signature.

attixed my MAX LIPKIN. 

